Let's take the piano riff I previously wrote and add a bass line. This was entirely improvised but you'll hear it's very rhythmically similar to the left-hand of the piano part, even down to the 3+3+2 accents except in the third bar of four where 3+2+3 is suggested.
download if embed doesn't work
And now let's add the drums. I took a standard kick, snare and high-hat pattern that comes with Logic Pro and modified it to give a machine-gun rhythmic interplay between both high-hat and kick drum.
download if embed doesn't work
While the interplay between kick and high-hat makes for an interesting rhythm, we'll eventually want to vary it subtly throughout the song to keep things more interesting. We'll worry about that later, though.
Here's a combined version with piano, bass and drums:
download if embed doesn't work
Note that all tracks had some compression and EQ. In a later post I'll talk a bit about that.
Then we'll add a few more tracks before moving on to composing the chorus, putting together the overall song structure and, of course, adding the vocals.
All material for this project is made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license so you are free to redistribute and remix with attribution but under the same license and not commercially.
The original post was in the categories: music_composition record_producing_and_engineering song_project but I'm still in the process of migrating categories over.
The original post had 2 comments I'm in the process of migrating over.